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Reversing an action it took two weeks ago, the Cambridge Board of Licenses yesterday granted the Brattle Theatre a permit to show movies at midnight on Fridays and Saturdays...
...last time we voted on this I feel we were not fully informed," Leo Davenport, chief of Cambridge police and a member of the licensing board, said after a rehearing of the theater's application. "Since that time we have learned that three other Cambridge theaters show movies at midnight...
...probably do not need a special license to show movies at midnight except when the shows run into early Sunday morning and become subject to 'blue laws,'" John J. Campbell, attorney for Brattle Theatre, said yesterday. "But we would rather apply for a license covering Friday and Saturday nights and ward off any problems with the licensing board...
...Cambridge theaters hold weekday and Sunday entertainment licenses, but the three which show midnight movies--Harvard Square Theatre, the Off the Wall Cinema, and the Orson Welles Cinema--hold no special permit for midnight showings...
...that much more about what is happening in Eastern Europe today? Granted this has been a "Human Rights" year; the Harvard community this summer sat reverentially through Solzhenitzyn's Commencement speech condemning the West's lack of resistance to the Soviet Union--and of course we all condemned the show trials of the Helsinki monitoring group. But blandly cheering on courageous dissidents like Ginzburg and Scharansky as they take part in some goodies vs. baddies soap opera is an insult. We can only effectively succor the cause of human rights in Eastern Europe by understanding in detail the local conditions...